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吉野丸船遊び
A Party on the Pleasure Boat Yoshinomaru
吉野丸船遊び
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban tetraptych; 38.2 x 104.8 cm (15 1/16 x 41 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7447-50
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba City Mus., Chôbunsai Eishi ten (2023), #19; Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #18; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 2, British Museum II (1988), pl. 184; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #98; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 218, list no. 88
DescriptionTetraptych (four sheets of incomplete pentaptych), left to right: 21.7447, 21.7448, 21.7449, 21.7450
MFA impressions: *06.689 (left sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), *06.690 (left center sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), 11.14022 (right center sheet only), 11.14164-8 (complete pentaptych), 21.7447-50 (four sheets only, right sheet missing), 21.7586-90 (complete pentaptych)
MFA impressions: *06.689 (left sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), *06.690 (left center sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), 11.14022 (right center sheet only), 11.14164-8 (complete pentaptych), 21.7447-50 (four sheets only, right sheet missing), 21.7586-90 (complete pentaptych)
Signed
Eishi ga (on each sheet)
栄之画
栄之画
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.